The free French secret agents : the Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action, 1940-1944 by Pascal Le Pautremat(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2013
in
English
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How did so few men manage to organize resistance networks and gather so much intelligence in such a short time despite being
unceasingly hunted by the German and Vichy counterespionage services? It is thought that 70% of the information which was
vital for the Allies before the Normandy landings in 1944 was sent by French agents working for the BCRA. Using very often
unpublished or ignored documents, the author gives an account of General de Gaulle's secret services which, in 1940, were
thought to be just a small group of amateurs but which as the war progressed, became a powerful war machine in the service
of the Free French